As I gear up to do an episode every few days in prep for my trip to Australia, Dec. 16 – Jan. 21, it’s going to be probably more of the same, and I have a lot of interviews slated for that time (yet to be recorded … most are yet to be confirmed, so we’ll see). I’m trying to figure out how to make an episode about the peer review process and an episode about uncertainties and errors sound interesting, for those are the next two planned at the moment.

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That was a good episode. Though I will admit when you bought up the Whirlpool galaxy the first thing I thought was that “This galaxy is interacting…” and so finding detailed spiral structure would be no surprise.

Not sure if this is the best place to post this… but anyway I have a suggestion for a future topic, regarding the claims discussed here: http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/11/19/proof-that-humans-are-extra-terrestrial/
I know that some of it has to do with biology, but there’s a good astronomy angle in that Dr Silver claims that humans could not evolve on Earth because we can’t handle sunlight. The first thought I had was “but we evolved somewhere else that might also have sunlight?” I’d love to hear a more about the Goldilocks zone, his claims, and whether or not life could evolve with/out sunlight. (Follow the links to the Yahoo page… there’s plenty there for you to turn into a podcast I think. Especially in the comments)